OWB Odyssey Web Browser tips&tricks

OWB tips :

OWB is a crucial but also very sensible application. I personnally find it very fast and usefull. I use it for webmailing, browsing my blog, going on http://aros-exec.org, http://youtube.com, etc…

When on facebook, everything’s ok, as HTML5 is recognized, but it often crashes on facebook videos.

You must disable the “autostart” parameters, and use “standard definition only”.

you can find autostart parameters in the video tab in your facebook preferences

Pages do not show CSS correctly :

For example WordPress 4.7 admin page. It used to work, then don’t work anymore.

Reproductible problem :

You go to edit an item (page or post), then click again on the menu on the left. You see the admin page that is not displayed well anymore.

Workaround :

This has something to do with the cache, i don’t know why.
You must : start from a fresh copy of OWB drawer, go to your admin page (or somewhere else). In the “Conf” drawer of OWB, you see a file called

29a5abb3-i386-aros.cache-4

Backup it somewhere (with DOPus2 ?)
When this behavior from OWB occures, then :

copy back the file you backuped

delete the content of the drawer “conf/cache”

launch OWB again. The problem should be fixed now.

TO DO EACH TIME, so keep a copy of the file you backuped !

Some more piece of advice : to make it faster, copy your OWB drawer to RAM: before begining your surf time.

Pictures do not show correctly :

You can see that the picture is not showed correctly

Replace the SYS:Libs/jfif.library and jpeg.library by the one from Icaros 2.1.3 DVD. Tadaaaa !

Stack overflow errors ?

OWB icon information window

Go in the Information window of OWB icon (in SYS:Utilities/OWB, right click on it, then “information…”)

for a long time amiga & demos lover and musician.
Beta tester for icaros for some years now (since icaros 1.5), i do it as much as i can.
i'm a computer scientist, managing the computer infrastructure in a big company (won't tell the name there).